Last Night's Music at Unnameable Books

This is a fair amount to watch, but it gives a good idea of the laborinvolved in music production, something I've wanted to emphasize.The oud is plugged in. To 'play like this' requires hours of practiceand an exactness that's difficult for me; I've only been playingfretless instruments for maybe two years now. So the speed involvesquick stopping and starting (with all the issues of accelerating andinertia involved), as well as hopefully minute adjustments to bringthe position into tune. Fingers, wrists, arms are involved. To get agreater reach it's sometimes necessary to move the hand from underthe neck, fretting from above; I gain at least a fourth from that,most of the time more. All of this, at speed, is exhausting; if it'snot, I need to play faster, so that the envelopes of the soundsbecome the primary focus, not the individual notes and their linearpositioning. The video is a good recording of the process as a whole.Courtesy of Azure Carter, 12/04/11.

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Performance I, special guest Ben Owen
Performance II, “Sound happens in the group!” by workshop participants
Performance III, “Sound happens!” by Theremidi Orchestra
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Create your own instruments and sounds with basic electronics. Then perform live! The ten members of Theremidi Orchestra (TO) will guide and assist participants during a five-day, hands-on and theoretical workshop. Participants will assemble two electronic sound devices and learn how to play them in noisy group improvisations.
The workshop will also provide a framework for aesthetic discussion, from how to improvise and work in a group and understanding the sound ranges of the instruments, to implications of collective feedback loops and concepts of social amplification. Then work collaboratively to develop the live performance. Daniel Neumann, curator of CT-SWaM, will assist in developing ideas for spatialization of the multi-channel performance.

On Monday, June 23 CT-SWaM will be holding the last public event at Eyebeam's Chelsea location. This will be the goodbye to this magnificent space in form of a picnic accompanied by various composed and spontaneous tribute performances. The evening will feature a unique ensemble piece by Andrew Lafkas with Marcia Basset, Barry Weisblat, Leif Sundstrom, Rick Brown, Patrick Holmes, Tucker Dulin, Che Chen, Karen Waltuch, Kenny Wang, Andrew Lafkas, Gill Arno, Wolfgang Gil, Daniel Neumann and Ben Owen.
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